I read a fantasy story years ago with two gay main characters. It was pretty groundbreaking for me as a gay kid, I had never read anything like it.

It was this sort of adventure/war story where one gay guy is a wizard and he is traveling to fantasy Arabia, and his boyfriend is this monk he falls in love with. Then the monk is killed and the gay wizard is sold into sex slavery for Bedouin type desert nomads because he's pretty and has long red hair and the local prince falls in love with him. There's a big war, the gods fight and then desert god goes to wake up the Elder Gods for a bigger fight.

I am not kidding, this is an actual 300 page book that is part of a series but I have no idea how to better describe it.

Is there like an "Ask Reddit Book Nerds Group" where i can find this book 20 years later?

The 2nd amendment has been around for a while, and its not going anywhere. That being said, it may not be "destroying the country" but it does make it dangerous to live here. We've just learned to deal with it. It just means that mass shootings, the shooting of presidents, and the possibility of a one man killing 50 people in a gay club a part of life.

I'd like to point out the above examples I've mentioned all occurred with legally acquired fire arms.

That being said, the above can also be accomplished with bombs. Lunatics will always find a way.

This is a bit wrong. Police are very twitchy in certain parts of the country usually do to regional racial/class biases and aggregate gun crime rates in an area.

For example, a cop in Buckhead is not likely to shoot someone during a random police stop in Buckhead, Atlanta, which is a wealthy part of Atlanta but also majority black, but a few hundred miles away in Ferguson, where the BLM movement high crime rates relative to the population which is also incredibly poor, there is a higher chance of a stop with an officer becoming violent.

There's a lot more nuance to it, but not all cops are twitchy. It's just the assholes.

So, my dad was a cop, and he was always very strict about me not cursing, even though he cursed, like well, a fucking NYPD officer. He would curse when he was watching TV, he would curse when he was telling a joke, he would curse when he was sad, pretty much 30% of the way he spoke, in any involved heavy cursing.

So, that meant that I had very little context clues about what words were curses, and what words were OK to say, I would just have to build a running list of what words were curse words, and what words weren't. My dad was also a but of a bully, so I never tried out words around him, in fact I don't even think I did it consciously.

Example: I learned calling the NUN teaching my 2nd grade Catholic school class a "greedy kike" in front of the entire class was not something that really left a smile on someone's face.

ANOTHER Example: As a gay boy, who went to Catholic school with zero sex ed, there was a lot about girls and female anatomy I'm still learning about 30 years later. My dad, besides being a cursing Irish drunk, really loved a good misogynist joke and in general speaking about women poorly. It took me until I was about 9 to learn that I should probably not use any jokes that he thought was funny.

Needless to say, meeting giving your grandmother, that you were genuinely happy to see, with a smile and a hug, in front of half the family, and flat out saying "How you doing, you old douchebag" did not go over well.

Not to be rude, but you've clearly never lived in Florida. This is local government doublespeak for "Fuck the poor." But also this:

Pinellas Park is one of PSTA’s busiest areas, while in East Lake bus service was eliminated in September because of low ridership. About 75 people a day used those buses, Miller said. PSTA now subsidizes cab service in the area, but riders must call 24 hours in advance and only about five people a day do so, he said.

They've already cut the service, and their only solution, besides telling poor people to fuck off and just die already is a cab discount.